Fight Club

One of the cooks at work quit last Friday. I wasn’t working but apparently it happened after a blazing fight with one of the owners, who’s also the cook’s sister. It was so loud that customers in the main dinning room could hear them. The fight happened in Chinese so nobody knows exactly what it was about, except those who speak Chinese and they ain’t talking about it. This follows us losing another cook just last month so we only have two experienced ones plus a newbie they’re training. So Y, the owner/sister is spending more time in the kitchen helping and less time on the floor which means any shift that usually has 1 waitress now has two, any shift that usually has 2 now has 3. I’m now working 6 days a week.

My schedule was a bit tight before, now it’s down right hectic and things are starting to fall through the cracks. (Like practicing tap which I sorely need!)

This also means more quality time with z’bitch that, after getting a talkin’ to is being pleasant for the most part.

I have managed to nock some things off the list I posted last week, I feel good about that, particularly getting my ticket booked to TX for X-Mas. Yep, it’ll be a guns and ammo Christmas for me! (The P family isn’t 100% sure their going back to Mexico for the holidays and I couldn’t afford to wait to see what they would do/risk being stuck here.)

I also have an appointment with a legit family doctor next month!!!

But I still need to get my ducks in a row as far as school goes, find out if the course I’m thinking of taking will actually be useful, register etc. And with the current situation at work that has me a bit stressed out. There’s only the 3 of us on the floor, my manager, z’bitch and I, going back to school would mean that, at best, I’d only be able to work part time hours; they’ll have to hire someone else. And I do still want to keep working there but there’s also the chance the owners will flat out fire me.

Moreover I’m worried about my manager. She’s already completely stressed out about things at work, but she also has a cruise booked in January (only her second vacation in 4 years) and I don’t want my plans to screw with that.

So I need to get on this schools thing ASAP so I can tell her ASAP and we can figure out a plan.

No rest for the widow.

Actually, on that note, I am sleeping a bit better, I’ve gotten 5 hours a few times! A friend suggested listening to a certain type of music (which I still haven’t checked out) but I’m playing music and it seems to be helping.

‘Tho I’m still having a re-occurring nightmare, I never bothered to mention it before because I just figured it would go away but ever few weeks I have it.

Basically I’m walking home from work at night, get to our front door and start to unlock it and hear a noise behind me. I turn and see a shadowy figure of a man standing there in a long trench coat with flowers in his hand. He’s got longish collar length hair but that’s about all I can make out.

(I should note our front porch is pretty dark, we don’t have an outside light and only get a little from the streetlight across the street.)

He doesn’t say anything but steps towards me to hand me the flowers, I take them and he grabs me around the neck and starts to choke me. I can’t breath, I can’t scream, things start to go dark and then I wake up.

Nice eh?

I can’t figure out what it means or how/if it relates to HIS death other than HE had a trench coat which I didn’t particularly like.

Anyhow, that’s the rundown for now.